Género, urbanización y pobreza: el reto de los "hogares"

The article stresses the importance of including into the interventions that seek to reach sustainable development gender dimensions, urbanization and poverty, and the need to approach them from the perspective of domestic units or households, especially of those headed by women. When reflecting on the concept of household and approaching the gender selectivity of rural-urban migration, a phenomenon that has decisively influenced the urbanization of the third world, it calls to attention the strategies of the households in the countryside and the city that affect the composition of the domestic units and the urgency to consider the increasing proportion of households headed by a woman in the cities as objective of sustainable development policies, since the household is one of the central institutions that help model relationships between men and women, their access to resources and their participation in change for development.